Whitelock
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Old English personal name Witlac; first attested Witlac 1066 DB (London)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhwaɪtˌɫɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Whitelock is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Old English personal name Witlac; first attested Witlac 1066 DB (London)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Whitelock counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | — | 791 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 20 | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2 | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Whitelock is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, different form of Whitlock
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dorothy Whitelockb. 1901GBEnglish historian (1901–1982)
- Kayla Whitelockb. 1985NZNew Zealand field hockey player
- George Whitelockb. 1986NZNew Zealand rugby union player
- Adam Whitelockb. 1987NZNew Zealand rugby union footballer
- Sam Whitelockb. 1988NZNew Zealand rugby union footballer
- Luke Whitelockb. 1991NZNew Zealand rugby union player
- Anna WhitelockGBBritish historian and academic
- John WhitelockAUresearcher
- Denise WhitelockGBresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.8K | #4,106 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 791 | #29,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 779 | #31,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 708 | #31,014 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #86,481 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #168,993 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1992 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Whitelock mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Old English personal name Witlac; first attested Witlac 1066 DB (London) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Whitelock?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhwaɪtˌɫɑk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Whitelock have the most bearers?
- Whitelock is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Whitelock?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/whitelockThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Whitelock”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.